Someone posted intimate images to hurt you. It is not your fault.

It’s not your fault. It’s a crime.

Trusting someone with intimate images was never permission to share them. When an ex or anyone else posts them to humiliate, control, or punish you, the crime is theirs — and most U.S. states, plus federal law, treat it that way. The shame belongs to the person who did this, not to you.

You don’t have to identify them, confront them, or prove your case to start a removal. A serious review acts on accountable surfaces and search exposure — not on you.

Boundary first. Work stays sealed.

A public page should keep you safe and get you to the right door. It should not expose what belongs inside the confidential client record.

1. Don’t engage with the poster.

   Don’t reply, beg, or threaten back. If there’s a demand for money, don’t pay — it confirms you’re reachable and the demands usually continue.

2. Save the evidence — don’t spread it.

   Keep a private surface summary. Don’t forward or repost the content itself; the operating detail belongs in the client record.

3. Get a professional read.

   Start the private case online with one safe public pointer. Stripe opens a file-light case room and keeps AboutUs work behind a written boundary.

Federal and state law are on your side.

Non-consensual intimate images are covered by the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act, which sets a 48-hour removal obligation for covered platforms after a valid victim notice, and by non-consensual image laws in most states. Most people need the boundary, a clean evidence trail, and a human who can review the client record without pulling the sensitive file into commercial intake.

If the images keep reappearing, the next-step record belongs in the client record, not on the public page. Search de-listing is a fallback when content cannot yet be deleted at the source — never a substitute for taking it down.

Usually you already know who did this.

That is the difference between this and a random leak, and it changes three things. It changes what evidence is worth keeping, because the account, the messages around the post, and the timing all matter later in a way they do not when the source is anonymous. It changes the reporting path, because most state non-consensual image statutes turn on whether the person knew the images were private — which is usually provable when it is an ex. And it changes what you should not do first, which is contact them.

Contacting the person who posted it is the one move that reliably makes the situation worse. It tells them the post is working, it gives them a reason to repost somewhere you have not found yet, and in a criminal matter it can be read as the two of you working it out privately. A platform report and a written record do the same job without handing them anything.

We do not contact the person who posted it either, and we do not offer to. Removal here is aimed at the platform’s own rules and at the legal boundary, not at the poster. If what you actually need is a protective order or a criminal report, that belongs with a lawyer or the police, and we will say so rather than sell around it — AboutUs is a removal agency, not a law firm, and this page is not legal advice.

Honest about results.

We don’t make guarantees, and we won’t pretend a fallback is a removal. Our core work is results-based: for eligible cases we accept, the terms — including the written item, intended outcome, search-exposure limits if any, and refund term — are defined in your written service agreement. We tell you up front what’s realistically removable and what isn’t. We’re a removal agency, not a law firm; if your situation needs a lawyer, we’ll say so and coordinate or refer. The public page shows the boundary; the AboutUs client record contains the written boundary, client updates, and outcome labels.

REPRESENTATIVE SCENARIO — composite of typical engagements, anonymized. Individual results vary; eligibility and any results-based terms are defined in your written service agreement.

After a breakup, intimate images are posted to a forum under the victim’s name and spread through reposts. The source context, receipts, support needs, and search exposure are documented privately; the case record stays inside the client record, with source status and search fallback labeled plainly.